Re: The dwm thread

inch wrote:

Hi! Just started with my first arch experience and tried to get into dwm - and already hit the first barrier. I installed dwm via the wiki and everything went fine, edited the xinitrc (contains the sh header and exec dwm). dwm starts and everything is fine until I want to do something (like opening a terminal), ALT + Shift + Enter doesn't open anything, ALT + Shift + Q doesn't exit dwm and so on. (config.h wasn't changed by me)

Re: The dwm thread

Re: The dwm thread

markbabc wrote:

steve___ wrote:

Does alt-z bring up dmenu? Do you have xterm installed?

alt-z? isnt it alt-p?

yes, alt+p, does it work ?if it does then Alt+<num> should also work and change tags

if so the problem is probably Alt+Shift is already reserved for something else like switching kbd layouts. If so either change your MODKEY to something different than Alt(Mod1Mask) say the windows key(Mod4Mask)or disable that rule so that you can use Alt+Shift.

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I'm trying to configure my media keys (Vol up/down/mute, MPD play/pause/next/prev) and to that I'm just making DWM spawn a small script everytime one of the buttons is pressed. The keys are setup fine and everything, but no matter what I put in the script, DWM always gives me an error:

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Hello, i need help with leanertagbar.patch. I can't get urgent tags change it color. Even there were an activity in other task like irssi / pidgin. Which other patch i must apply first? i was try to patch the statusbarcolor but it breaks my dwm.c Here' s some info for my dwm.c and config.hdwm.c

Re: The dwm thread

Just a quick question, does anyone else have issues with the gaps between applications in dwm? If I launch a pair of terminals, for example, there's no gap between them. If I switch to the next tag and back again, a gap has appeared. Is this something anyone has encountered and found a fix for?

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JHeaton wrote:

Just a quick question, does anyone else have issues with the gaps between applications in dwm? If I launch a pair of terminals, for example, there's no gap between them. If I switch to the next tag and back again, a gap has appeared. Is this something anyone has encountered and found a fix for?

What terminal are you using? I have urxvt and haven't noticed the issue.

Edit: Actually, it might be urxvt if your font size is causing it to have gaps. This is a known issue with stock urxvt. There is a urxvt in the AUR that will fix this for you.

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the sad clown wrote:

JHeaton wrote:

Just a quick question, does anyone else have issues with the gaps between applications in dwm? If I launch a pair of terminals, for example, there's no gap between them. If I switch to the next tag and back again, a gap has appeared. Is this something anyone has encountered and found a fix for?

What terminal are you using? I have urxvt and haven't noticed the issue.

Edit: Actually, it might be urxvt if your font size is causing it to have gaps. This is a known issue with stock urxvt. There is a urxvt in the AUR that will fix this for you.

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Well, if you like gaps, you should add the uselessgap patch to dwm. It's updated for dwm 5.9 and works very well. Then your gaps really will be intended functionality, plus, it will then be able to manipulate the size of the gaps from your config.h file.

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Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Edit: Installed the patch, however still get the problem only the gaps are initially visible now. Switching to another tag and back widens them to the specified gap-size (3px in my case). This appears to be driver-related; I was using nouveau and switching to the proprietary nvidia driver does not give the same issue. Is there any way that I can find out if this is a problem with dwm or nouveau? I'm guessing it's the latter, but... :S

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Is there a way in dwm to switch to the next or previous tag? Right now it only seems to be possible to go to e.g. tag 2 with Mod+2. I'd like to be able to jump from tag 1 to tag 2 with Mod+n and back from tag 2 to tag 1 with Mod+p. Is that possible? Does anybody know a way?